[Album of newpaper satires relating to the Congress of Berlin, 1878.]
[1878.]
Folio scrap album, original green half morocco gilt, with Buchram boards, silk endpapers; 33 sheets on 30 card pages. Some spotting.
An album of satires of the Congress of Berlin in 1878, in which the European powers and the Ottoman Empire met to reorganise the states in the Balkan Peninsula after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. Although the satires are in German and French, the compiler seems to have been British, as the gilt title on the front board is in English. Several of the plates caricature Benjamin D'Israeli and the British acquisition of Cyprus: one shows the Prime Minister drunk on Cypriot wine.
[Ref: 60719] £380.00
Folio scrap album, original green half morocco gilt, with Buchram boards, silk endpapers; 33 sheets on 30 card pages. Some spotting.
An album of satires of the Congress of Berlin in 1878, in which the European powers and the Ottoman Empire met to reorganise the states in the Balkan Peninsula after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. Although the satires are in German and French, the compiler seems to have been British, as the gilt title on the front board is in English. Several of the plates caricature Benjamin D'Israeli and the British acquisition of Cyprus: one shows the Prime Minister drunk on Cypriot wine.
[Ref: 60719] £380.00